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SIGNS THE DEVIL HOLDS: Volume IV (1950-1970)A Documentary History of American Moral PanicBy: Emmitt Owen(Index #11032025 – 11062025) ─────────────────────────────── LEGAL & FAIR USE STATEMENT ─────────────────────────────── This book is a work of documentary history and cultural commentary. It incorporates short quotations from publicly available materials for purposes of analysis, education, and historical discussion under the Fair Use… Read more
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SIGNS THE DEVIL HOLDS1910-1930A Documentary History of American Moral PanicBy Emmitt Owens(Index #10282025-10302025) — Between 1910 and 1930, Americans identified at least fifteen distinct signs of Satan’s work on Earth: jazz music, motion pictures, comic books, radio broadcasting, women’s suffrage, flappers, bobbed hair, makeup, smoking in public, short skirts, the Charleston dance, speakeasies, gangster… Read more
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Genesis 5 might seem like the Bible’s most boring chapter—just a genealogy with names, ages, and that phrase “and he died” repeated nine times like a funeral drumbeat. But buried in this list is one of the weirdest details in Scripture: Enoch didn’t die. Everyone else lived 900+ years and still died. Adam? Dead at… Read more
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I was writing about Cain’s wife when I had this wild realization: If you actually read Genesis 1, God already told us there were other humans—”Male and female created HE THEM” (plural). Then Genesis 2 zooms in on Adam and Eve specifically in the Garden of Eden. So when Cain leaves and “knows his wife”… Read more
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